May 17, 2020

A day which should be more significant than it is came and went recently with hardly any notice at all. You might blame COVID-19, but honestly the pandemic is not the ...

March 27, 2020

I got involved with senior athletics back in 2007. At that time the only location in Saskatchewan where rural senior slo-pitch tournaments were taking place was in the ...

March 8, 2020

The obvious disconnect between consumers and farmers is much discussed in agriculture media, and that includes being mentioned here on numerous occasions. This past week ...

March 3, 2020

Seniors in the Parkland Valley area often lament on how “things were” in years past. There is reason for that. Many of today’s seniors grew up in an era when the rural ...

February 18, 2020

When it comes to cross-country skiing, I may be the first off the starting blocks but that “darn Swede” seems to beat me to the finish line. Unfortunately, her stamina and ...

January 20, 2020

Edgar Allen Poe wrote in The Purloined Letter: “The best place to hide is in plain sight.” Sadly, Saskatchewan’s municipal governments appear to be taking that to heart, ...

November 24, 2019

Well they’ve done it again. For those of you keeping track, Town of Canora Councillor Brent Pelechaty has been suspended from town council for a third time. This latest 180...

July 23, 2019

Billionaire Robert F. Smith promised to pay off the college debt of 400 seniors at Morehouse College, Atlanta, amounting to $40 million. All he asked in return was that ...

July 16, 2019

You’ve heard of urban legends, right? Like the lady who had a spider bite that turned into a nest of eggs that hatched under her skin, or the tale of the kid that died ...

July 2, 2019

It might not be new in terms of a challenge facing agriculture, but it is one that certainly needs to keep bubbling on the front burner in terms of a response. What I am ...

April 19, 2019

“God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life” (John 3:16.) On Holy Saturday we ...